Issues in the Elections

THEPublished TwiceM a Month IL by tbe Communist IT League A of America N (Opposition) T V ol.III,N o.30 NEW YO RK, N. Y| September 15 1930 ___________ PRICE 5 CENTS In Stalin’s Exile RAKOVSKY IN DANGER! Issues in the Elections The silence of the leadership of our Party and the International continues to be Capitalist Parties Put Up Fake Issues to Conceal Jobless Sufferings profound. We w ill continue without cease our appeal to the workers for the Bolshevik Sufficient has occurred in the last few The socalled prohibition issue is the gles to resist the offensive of the capitalist Oppositionists deported by Stalin. weeks to show on what) basis the twin best one that could be chosen—for the class? Give them a prohibition prizeifight capitalist parti es intend to conduct the capitalist class. It conveniently cuts across to distract their minds from woe and stru- Above all, comrade Christian Rakovsky election Campaign: Prohibition—ftfr anil party lines so that neither singly nor to gle! must be saved! against! The faithful servant of Tammanj gether can they be made responsible for The dislike and total Incapacity of the The workers must be informed, and to Hail, Governor Roosevelt, hae issued a aythlng. It is an expedient gas gun for capitalist parties to face the real problems those responsible for the Party’s policy, “courageous” statement for the repeal ol shooting clouds around fundamental and the masses are confronted with, are quite we must constantly raise the question: the 18th Amendment. The “wet” Republi really burning issues. understandable. Republican or Democrat What are you doing to the Left Opposition cans of New York are warning the Party Is there mass unemployment, misery, —they are the ramparts of the system that in the U..S.S.R.?' Why do you persecute it? high priests that unless they do the same, sta rva tio n , suicide in the country? Elooze produces wars, unemployment, crises, mis Justify your repressive measures if you the parched Party sheep w ill flock to the will solve that! Are wages being cut to ery, child labor, exploitation, inequality and can! flowing brooks of the "Democracy”. In the very marrow? Booze will make the opflilession with am evcr-inbreaeing fre Illinois, the Democratic senatorial nominee, workers forget that! Is a form of social quency and permanency. Their crimes and festering corruption are the crimes and On Rakovsky J. Hamilton Lewis, has declared the great insurance needed by the workers? No, it’s issue to be bringing the government back beer and light wines they need! Are the corruption of capitalism, with which the (Extract from a Letter) to “the principle of the fathers”, which, workers clubbed during strikes, bludgeoned whole country is reeking like a pestilence. if he refers to the George, Washingtons, at demonstrations of the jobless, evicted For a worker to support them is to kiss . Rakovsky is writing an enormous means cheap booze. Michigan has al from their homes? Prohibition caused it the chains that enslave him and amount. Whatever reaches us is read by ready defeated two prominent dry Repub all! Do the workers want bread? Give with gratitude the blows he receives. all; in this sense Christian Georgevitch is lican Congressmen in the primaries. Ver them beer and they won’t need bread! Is doing a great work. His position does not Reformist Aides to Capitalism mont has given an unknown “wet” a nom there a bleak winter ahead, a winter of differ one whit from our own (that of Then ,should he support the Socialist ination over a prominent “dry”. The same deepened crisis of horrible suffering, of food Trotsky); like ourselves, he is resisting party? No. It the Republican and Demo comedy is being enacted everywhere. riots perhaps and certainly of bitter strug- the Party regime. Here are some extracts cratic parties are the ramparts of capital from one of his last cards: ism, the Socialist party is the ditch around “All our warnings have been verified the fortress that traps those who seek to much more rajjidly aind fully than we A Yankee Revolution in the Argentine storm it. The socialist party has removed might have imagined. Right now a re every mention of the class struggle from its treat is being beaten, and the positions are M ilitarist "revolutions” in South Amer tion” and coolly driven them back to a program, constitution and works. But it being abandoned, evidently by the usual ica are occurring with bewildering fre position of quiescence and subjugation as has not left the class struggle; it has only zig-zags. The slogan of ‘generalized col quency and abruptness. First Bolivia, then soon as they have seized power. For the become an assistant to capitalism. It is lectivization in three years’ still continues Peru, now Argentina, and tomorrow, per- masses, in a word these “revolutions” Save the party of the petty bourgeoisie. It is only for the purpose of frightening the hap, Brazil. In virtually every one of these no progressive significance, and often a the party of the respectable business men middle peasant and increasing the retail countries, the boiling over of conflicting more reactionary one. who faithfully manage the municipal affairs price by its presssure. The middle peasant elements results from the volcanic heat What is even more disturbing is the of Reading and Milwaukee for the capitalist w ill be the axis around which the turn of generated by the world capitalist crisis. complete absence of the Communist move class. It is the devoted workman who 180 degrees in Centrist policy w ill revolve. Even more precisely, the “revolutions” in ment in these affairs. They appear no goes about his master’s house, with plaster question mirrtor the unconcealed rivalry where as a political factor. They do not and trowel, begging for permission to coyer “After Centrism, without resistance, between Britain and the United States. In even appear to attempt to turn the guns of up the more unsightly holes in the decay ruined the economy of the middle peasant, both these imperialist powers, their an- the masses aginst the m ilitarist puppets ing structure. it w ill again begin to make a fetich of him, archistically organized industries and of the native bourgeoisie and imperialism. Does it offer promises to the workers? with the ritual sacrifices, not on the backs means of distribution are paralyzed, their The truth is: They have been crushed and Certainly! More even than its masters of the bureaucracy—which everybody home markets sluggish and contracted, their rendered impotent by the ravages of Sta offer. It offers a MacDonald regime in the w ould have to approve-------bu t a t the ex financial systems in disorder. Prim arily for linism, which has virtually dissolved the United States, a regime which has so effect pense of tihe poor peasants and the prolet these two, it has become a matter of econ oncq promising Communist movement in ively “solved” unemployment in England ariat” . omic existence to fight tooth and nail for the Latin-American countries. that millions are still on a miserable dole; a larger share of the world market, limited it has “solved” the oppression of imperial Letter from Russia as it is. This struggle for markets, raw The German Elections ism in India by massacring tbe Indian material, spheres of influence and the like, people. Haven’t Hillqult and Co. endorsed . By chance I received some in We go to press too soon to report the produces the mfi3t violent eruptions in the British "Labor” government? Aren’t formation on the solitary prison of N. outcome of the elections in Germany, and every corner of the world, of which the they in one and the same "socialist” inter One of our comrades confined there pre must therefore leave iti to the next issue to recent events in South America are only national? Are they not “comrades” of viously developed the theory of the “fer contain a detailed analysis of the results. Characteristic. Zoergiebel, the butcher of Berl'n’s prolet ment” that is, that we are ferment of the In this case, however, as in all capitalist ariat, and Eoncour, the agent of the French, next revolutionary "rise, but today, in his The overthrow of the tyrannical but (elections, the 'casting of ballots is fair war mongers? Are they not in the party letter, a change is to be felt. Everybody cher of the Peruvian toiling masses, Leguia, from the decisive question. The fate of of the “socialist’ trade union racketeers works to deepen and increase his theoretical the W all Stfeet adjutant who was surround Germany and its working class will be who practise for power by beating up and knowledge, they study and strengthen their ed by American financial and naval “ad decided in the open field of the class strug visors”, marked an offensive of Britain expelling Left wing workers? They are knowledge of foreign languages, with a gle. The problem for the bourgeoisie is the gay deceivers of the working class, marked preference for German. The dis against the Yankee dollar—never very pop its ability to unload the burden of the typified by Mr. Heywood Broun and Mr. cussions go on without cease. The 'sub ular with the Latin American masses— nrifcis upon techpico-lnldusltrialliy weaker which has yet to say its (final word. Norman Thomas, who keep the workers jects: knowledge of the world, space, time, countries and by intensified exploitation of from iftghting their class enemy by telling mechanics, the sorties of the Right wing, W ith almost the precision of a m ilitary the working class, in order to carry out them that their lot can be improved by the "third period”,etc., etc.

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